I'm sorry to say

Rating: 4/10 (25 August 2013)

Well this is a turn of events. A movie about humongous robots doing the work at the behest of pilots who must align themselves with each other mentally for the behemoth to work properly. In other words, if you lose the alignment, you die. Or at least won't work half way. Pacific rim is about a breach in subspace on earth deep in the oceans.
All of the united nations combined work together to build large robots so that they can fight on equal grounds.
Yet I felt this film has too many clichés to be desired. Such as monsters fighting against robots, which to me looks like a tech-no poised godzilla against mothra kind of thing.
Also the idea of fighting these creatures to stop them from colonizing earth and moving on to the next, has a flavor of independence day.
Plus - - the cloned monsters themselves were pregnant, again, godzilla hinted.
This did have a good amount of special effects, but the story was not all that original. I liked the actors, but truthfully the explosions and destruction was way over the top.
Although the idea for this was because of the creatures invading earth. Each one the size of a building. In that aspect, I can agree using robots was a nice approach. But the overtones of creatures, pregnancy, even the breach to another dimension in its own right has another flavor such as Cloverfield.
If you broke it all down, it is different movies wrapped into one cluster. And in that sense, it lost its potency. It was a good summer filler, nothing more. But it did push the actors forwards to doing other films.
It is good to see new faces.
I just hope they pick the right roles.